[PATCH 5/7] checkpatch: format strings should not have brackets in macros

[Andy Whitcroft]

We should not recommend braces for the following:

    #define pr_fmt(fmt)    "%s: " fmt, __func__

allow things with double quotes round them to avoid this check.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e3c6b49..57df906 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2288,7 +2288,8 @@ sub process {
 				DECLARE_PER_CPU|
 				DEFINE_PER_CPU|
 				__typeof__\(|
-				\.$Ident\s*=\s*
+				\.$Ident\s*=\s*|
+				^\"|\"$
 			}x;
 			#print "REST<$rest> dstat<$dstat>\n";
 			if ($rest ne '') {
-- 
1.6.3.3

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